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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of pressing.
  2. n. The condition of being pressed.
  3. n. The application of continuous force by one body on another that it is touching; compression.
  4. n. Physics Force applied uniformly over a surface, measured as force per unit of area.
  5. n. Meteorology Atmospheric pressure.
  6. n. A compelling or constraining influence, such as a moral force, on the mind or will: pressure to conform; peer-group pressure.
  7. n. Urgent claim or demand: under the pressure of business; doesn't work well under pressure.
  8. n. An oppressive condition of physical, mental, social, or economic distress.
  9. n. A physical sensation produced by compression of a part of the body.
  10. n. Archaic A mark made by application of force or weight; an impression.
  11. v. To force, as by overpowering influence or persuasion.
  12. v. To pressurize.
  13. v. To pressure-cook.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of pressing; the exertion of force by pressing; the state of being pressed.
  2. n. In mech.: An equilibrated force.
  3. n. A force per unit area exerted over the surface of a body or part of a body, and toward the interior of the body. A force exerted upon a surface is necessarily equilibrated; otherwise, since the surface has no mass, it would produce infinite velocity until equilibrium ensued. A pressure can produce no motion, because it is a state of equilibrium; but a continuous variation of pressure in a given direction will tend to produce motion toward the places of less pressure. Thus, if a cylinder of liquid in a tube is under greater pressure per square inch at one end than at the other, there will be a tendency to motion toward the end where the pressure is less.
  4. n. Stress in general, being either thrust, pull, or shearing stress. For axis of pressure, conjugate pressure, and other phrases where pressure means stress, see the latter word.
  5. n. The action of moral force; exertion of authority or influence; compulsion; a constraining influence or impulse.
  6. n. Weight upon the mind; burdensomeness; oppressiveness; also, burden; oppression.
  7. n. Urgency; demand on one's time or energies; need for prompt or decisive action: as, the pressure of business.
  8. n. Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  9. n. Specifically, in hydrostatics, that point of a plane, or of the side of a vessel containing a liquid, to which if a force were applied equal to the total pressure and in the opposite direction, it would exactly balance the total pressure.
  10. n. Figuratively, a high degree of mental tension.
  11. n. In electricity, a term sometimes used for voltage, electromotive force, or difference of potential.
  12. n. In psychology, the specific quality of sensation furnished by the pressure-spots of the skin and by the organs of the articular sensitivity; pressure-sensation.
  13. n. The intrinsic pressure K is , where σ is the density of the fluid and (ψ)z is the attraction of an infinite layer of a fluid of unit density, bounded by a plane, upon a unit mass at a distance z from the plane.
  14. n. In a compressor, the pressure of the air or gas at the end of the stroke after it is compressed.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
  2. n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
  3. n. Distress.
  4. n. Urgency
  5. n. obsolete Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  6. n. physics The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
  7. v. transitive To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing.
  2. n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
  3. n. Affliction; distress; grievance.
  4. n. Urgency.
  5. n. Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  6. n. (Mech.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the amount upon a unit's area.
  7. n. Electro-motive force.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin
  2. n. the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)
  3. v. to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
  4. n. the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
  5. n. the state of demanding notice or attention
  6. n. the pressure exerted by the atmosphere
  7. v. exert pressure on someone through threats
  8. n. an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
  9. n. a force that compels

Etymologies

  1. From Old French, from Latin pressūra. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pressūra, from pressus, past participle of premere, to press; see per-4 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. compression
  1. squeezing
  1. crushing
  1. affliction
  1. distress
  1. grievance
  1. urgency
  1. impression
  1. stamp

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Other words for ‘pressure’

  1. center of pressure

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  1. somaesthesia
  2. somatesthesia
  1. somesthesia
  2. somatic sensation
  1. urgency
  2. work
  1. act upon
  2. influence
  1. distress
  2. force

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  1. temperature
  2. weight
  3. energy
  4. control
  5. flow
  6. tension
  1. resistance
  2. rate
  3. pain
  4. speed
  5. load
  6. noise
  1. quantity
  2. straight
  3. length
  4. expense
  5. hurry
  6. condition
  1. unit
  2. security
  3. consent
  4. ball
  5. oath
  6. direction
  1. date
  2. beast
  3. limit
  4. troops
  5. construction
  6. warning
  1. doors
  2. orders
  3. beginning
  4. effort

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Cheshire
  1. Escher
  1. flesher
  1. fresher
  1. refresher
  1. thresher

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sphygmomanometer
  2. overpressure
  3. sea-level pressure
  4. manometer
  5. sound pressure
  6. vapor pressure
  7. vapour pressure
  8. barometric pressure
  9. compartment pressure
  10. hydrostatic head
  11. instantaneous sound pressure
  12. osmotic pressure
  13. head
  14. atmosphere
  15. pressure
  16. blood pressure
  17. radiation pressure
  18. suction
  19. gas pressure
  20. intraocular pressure
  21. iop
  22. oil pressure
  23. acoustic radiation pressure
  24. corpuscular-radiation pressure
  25. impression
  26. millibar
  27. standard atmosphere
  28. standard pressure
  29. atm
  30. hyperpiesis
  31. microbar
  32. systolic pressure
  33. atmospheric pressure
  34. Torr
  35. turn up the pressure
  36. venous pressure
  37. white-coat hypertension
  38. Pascal
  39. pounds per square inch
  40. psi
  41. STP
  42. spacesuit
  43. steamroll
  44. turn up the heat
  45. bar
  1. diastolic pressure
  2. drive
  3. essential hypertension
  4. hyperpiesia
  5. hypertonicity
  6. hypotonicity
  7. millimeter of mercury
  8. mm hg
  9. pa
  10. steamroller
  11. air pressure
  12. arterial pressure
  13. bar absolute
  14. barye
  15. compressing
  16. compression
  17. safety valve
  18. caisson disease
  19. valve
  20. indicator
  21. impress
  22. high-pressure
  23. low-pressure
  24. squeeze
  25. megabar
  26. pumiced
  27. rotary evaporator
  28. liquid
  29. depression
  30. Dalton's law
  31. dalton's law of partial pressures
  32. law of partial pressures
  33. steam gauge
  34. cutter
  35. push
  36. degree
  37. diaphragm
  38. light-pressure
  39. p
  40. point
  41. pressure-bottle
  42. pressure-plate
  43. relief-plate
  44. sand-rammer
  45. suction-hose
  1. swinging-valve
  2. unit
  3. Boyle's law
  4. hyperbaric
  5. hypertension
  6. hypertonic
  7. crush
  8. lateral pressure
  9. decompression
  10. draft-gage
  11. force-pipe
  12. gage-tube
  13. initial
  14. l
  15. manostat
  16. pericyclone
  17. piezocrystallization
  18. pressure-flask
  19. radiation-pressure
  20. solution-pressure
  21. squirt
  22. underpressure
  23. valve-port
  24. volume-blower
  25. vapor-tension
  26. water-post
  27. g-jo
  28. piezo-electricity
  29. barie
  30. bleeder
  31. air lock
  32. aneroid barometer
  33. atmo
  34. autoclave
  35. barad
  36. counter-pressure
  37. elaterometer
  38. intropression
  39. isobaric
  40. gas constant
  41. regelation
  42. van der Waals equation
  43. vacuum drying
  44. decompression chamber
  45. burst
  1. carbonic acid
  2. center of pressure
  3. compound engine
  4. counter pressure
  5. cyclone
  6. expansion curve
  7. tonometer
  8. vasopressor
  9. decompress
  10. piezometer
  11. relief valve
  12. reverse osmosis
  13. shiatsu
  14. wind
  15. blast
  16. inch
  17. vacuum
  18. decompressing
  19. escape
  20. escape cock
  21. escape valve
  22. acupressure
  23. air compressor
  24. air current
  25. current of air
  26. melting point
  27. mill
  28. m'-naught
  29. pressor
  30. back pressure
  31. print
  32. receiver
  33. reducing valve
  34. resistance
  35. shunt valve
  36. siphon
  37. thrust
  38. weather map
  39. bring
  40. gas-governor
  41. pinch
  42. pit
  43. press
  44. pressure-figure
  45. printing-frame
  1. run
  2. steam-gage
  3. strut
  4. sympiesometer
  5. air-pressure
  6. boiling-house
  7. carbureter
  8. col
  9. contact
  10. diagram-factor
  11. equilibrium
  12. equilibrium-ring
  13. esthesiometer
  14. fog-limit
  15. force-oiler
  16. h
  17. ozone
  18. pressure-height
  19. pressure-log
  20. pressure-shift
  21. recording-drum
  22. reduction-valve
  23. release-cock
  24. saturation
  25. simple
  26. soil-aspirator
  27. space-sense
  28. steam-balance
  29. steam-driven
  30. steam-packing
  31. suction-box
  32. suction-lift
  33. tank-head
  34. test-boiler
  35. valve-ring
  36. vomiting-boiler
  37. weather-card
  38. touch
  39. vacuum brake
  40. vacuum-gage
  41. flaccid
  42. flexible
  43. jack
  44. jam
  45. felt
  1. fibroid phthists

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  • bilby Some samples from the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form.
    Air pressure is often wind's source,
    Causing breezes or gales of great force
    Where high pressure meets low
    (With a circular flow);
    Not a thing we do alters its course.     Dec 20, 2009

  • reesetee I can't. I just can't. It's psoriasis. Nov 14, 2008

  • bilby Oooh, reesetee, look at the definition. Measurement units! Nov 14, 2008

  • reesetee Yes. You are both gloriously stoopid dooshes. And we love you for it. :-) Nov 14, 2008

  • chained_bear Aww, elgiad.... *wipes tear*

    Sadly, I think you might not only be stoopid, but a doosh, like me. Nov 14, 2008

  • elgiad007 Bonniee (or whatever you call yourself after John locks you out again),

    It is a common fallacy of internet users to believe that their input into the system is somehow absorbed into a great ether, never to be seen or have any repercussions. It is also naive to believe that using a false name to log into a web site will totally obscure your true identity. While I do not speak for Wordie.org or it's creators, I will offer my thoughts here and let you dwell on them (if you are capable of such a thing).

    You don't seem to realize that there is a direct path leading to you, and, if one were so inclined, could lead to litigations against you (people have been sued for lesser and more ridiculous things).

    As we all now know, your school's intranet does not permit you to visit certain web sites (for good reason, obviously). These types of filtering programs typically rely on network user accounts to know which user to block from what domain. This means that your network administrator is tracking your terminal sessions, which includes the network user account you used to initiate the session. Speaking generally, the user account (since this is a school system) probably has a bunch of personal information attached to it (full name, address, parents names, etc.). These terminal sessions have dates and times associated with them and could easily be correlated with records that John (that guy you got mad at) keeps. Since John tracks the IP address of every source that submits data to his web site, he can find the IP address of your school by finding records with the exact date and time of the terminal session (I'm sure your network administrator and school system would be interested to know of these occurrences). The timestamps of the terminal sessions and Wordie.org are probably kept synchronous with the use of an NTP service, so, by working together, they likely to find the match.

    So unless you can account for yourself being somewhere other than that terminal at the date and time of the terminal session, you could be, as they say, up Shit Creek without a paddle if someone decided to look for you.

    Again, this is purely hypothetical as I do not know the particulars of the IT infrastructure at your school system. However, if you think it through logically, you are opening yourself up to a world of unknowns.

    I await your typical "you are stoopid" response. Nov 14, 2008

  • Prolagus Bonniee, do you have bananas? Nov 14, 2008

  • sionnach Hi bonniee:

    Any progress on the spelling front? Or literacy? Or manners?

    Guess not. Too bad. I'm imagining your life 10 years from now. It's a sorry picture.

    lol Nov 13, 2008

  • gangerh Gosh, bongiee, I never thought of that! Thanks for the tip. I'll never use my own name ever again. Just in case I'm ashamed of how I seem. Brilliant. Now back to the word pressure. Wot's your favourite definition? Mine's 'the act of applying farce in order to move something away'. Minted. Nov 13, 2008

  • whichbe yeah ya know it's like that guy that's all but then he didn't say that he was all STUPID cause lsoers don't know is what the paradoxical underpinnings of ya know! Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee man and you think you know about our lives! guess again! We purposely use fake names on here so that people who come along and read all this crap (that you post!) won't know it is US. Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee WOW! you are all have NO FREAKIN LIFE!
    this must be like a site for nerds that sit in an office building all day.
    I can picture it...
    4 men in thier office cubicles create a website on their businesses time (which is probabley some insurance compnany where you sit in chairs so small your butts are permenantly flat) You know what would make you some dough so you won't have to drive home in your cheap infinity sub compacts? How about turning this whole convosation in to a book because I bet you when people buy it they will laugh and laugh and laugh.I can picture it too.. "Wordies downhill development into a teenage destroction" So original... Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo you guys are like the dumbest people i have ever met. like seriously you think you scare us....well think again losers you dont. Why dont you guys go get some dougnuts choke on them and then go down \...ok? ok bye! Nov 13, 2008

  • reesetee Oh, good grief. They're like psoriasis--it's chronic! Nov 13, 2008

  • chained_bear Hey! I'm the doosh around here! Remember that!

    I'm the doosh around here!

    I'm the doosh around here!

    p.s. not really. Nov 13, 2008

  • dontcry Wow! Dooshheaded poop brains! Sounds more like pre-school than high school to me, "which be." Nov 13, 2008

  • whichbe No, they're right. I should shut up. What have I become?? Nov 13, 2008

  • chained_bear P.S. Stop telling people to shut up. This is a public site. It's for everyone. Have fun! Nov 13, 2008

  • chained_bear Bonnie are you done with you're English reasearch paper yet? Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee shush up which be!!!! Nov 13, 2008

  • whichbe Rock 'n roll highschool, forever Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo uh no why? Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee promise?
    DID YOU READ MY OTHER COMMENTS >:() Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo ok i will bonnie!

    hee hee


    i have to type my paper....lol


    but i will still talk to you on here
    :) Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee talkie to meee
    Oh em gee guess what!
    I just got this 506 error thing that said that guy JOHN (the guy I got mad at) owns wordie! He must be the one that locked us out of our accounts! Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee talkie to meee
    Oh em gee guess what!
    I just got this 506 error thing that said that guy JOHN (the guy I got mad at) owns wordie! He must be the one that locked us out of our accounts! Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee hjk;hjlghjlgfhkghk Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee How much work have you done so far
    ?
    Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee If I talk to you you have to talk to me back
    Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo yeah me too!
    :) Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo so whats up bonnie? Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee I bet they deleted our logins becasue we keep chatting on here :P Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee hope those dooshheaded poop brains don't bug us again Nov 13, 2008

  • super-lolo hello
    Nov 13, 2008

  • bonniee hey lolo
    Nov 13, 2008

  • mager Remember this word Sep 29, 2008

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